Maximum fines and prison terms for lesser offences under the Act were increased.

He is charged with lesser offences and is allowed to return to his company.

In February 2012, the prosecutor dropped his charges of money laundering to focus on lesser offences.

In 1982 this definition was extended (without parliamentary approval) to cover lesser offences where the financial rewards of success were very great.

District courts, with exclusive geographical jurisdictions, were established to try all lesser offences.

By contrast, a person who had been acquitted of a lesser offence could not be tried for an aggravated form even if new evidence became available.

Entirely innocent people might admit to lesser offences to avoid confiscation.

He was eventually ordered to pay a $30 fine for the lesser offence of public disorder, after prosecutors dropped the more serious charge.

At the end of the trial, he left for the United States, concerned about being charged with a lesser offence.

Get this, John: if you are ever suspected of something, try to make the evidence point to a lesser offence.